Drew Mitchell

CTL-E-0545 · Person · 2011

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Drew Mitchell co-owns 606 Records in Chicago, a Black-owned shop focused on small independent labels and local artists, and advocates for equal opportunity for minority-owned stores through the F.A.M.S. Coalition.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-015; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

Socast radio article, 'Black-Owned Record Stores Have Been in Decline' (2023); Vinyl Me Please via Milled (2021)

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